I have a problem with Internet Download Manager. Whenever I try to download an .FLV or .MP4 file using IDM it doesn’t let me download it.

For example, if I want to download 319MB .FLV file video plays and IDM shows its download icon. When I put my mouse over that download icon it shows there “FLV File 319 MB” and then after clicking on it the download box appears. It shows there’s an .FLV but doesn’t show the size of video.

I have tried to download without letting it show that but Internet Download Manager gives an error and the same goes for MP4 files. I even reinstalled Windows to fix this problem but I am still facing the same problem. I can download 10MB of .FLV or .MP4 files but no bigger than that.

I have Windows XP installed. Anyone know anything about this problem? i have the latest version of IDM 6.12 (Build 26).

Amit Sinha

Hi Alan
I found that some of YouTube Videos (mostly of Official Channels) can’t be downloaded and videos uploaded by a user can be easily downloaded by using IDM.

Please check yourself and reply how to download the videos

Lisa Santika Onggrid

December 6, 2012

Strange. Mine is doing just fine, but the biggest video file I’ve downloaded is only 150-200MBs.
Are you sure the website allows direct download? There are some sites that have some kind of download protection.

SaM

December 6, 2012

well it is strange for me too because i use to download movies from http://www.1channel.ch and i have downloaded thousands of movies there the largest one is 2.5 GB, it was going fine when IDM released their newer version 6.12 build 25, after that i have no Idea what happened. The websites there I mostly use for download movies arehttp://www.putlocker.comhttp://www.filenuke.comhttp://www.stagevu.comhttp://www.zalaa.com
and many more if you go there you’ll find out cause there’s nothing wrong with the websites there. And for that i have completely uninstalled IDM’s newer version and installed its very first version i guess its 5.17 but the problem is same.
Thank you very much for looking up to my problem.
SaM

Lisa Santika Onggrid

December 7, 2012

It appears that your IDM somehow got broken update. You said you’ve uninstalled the problematic version but the problem still persists so I guess there are still leftover files somewhere. I think your best bet is to ask IDM support directly concerning this problem.

Night Watcher

December 7, 2012

well i have already mentioned about windows i reinstall my windows for this problem but the problem seems to be the same.

Abba Jee

SaM

December 6, 2012

No Sir
I don’t use Youtube for downloading movies I use http://www.1channel.ch for that and there’s not any web there which is Protected. Cause i have downloaded thousands of movies from that web. And for making sure that maybe this site has some problem
i have tried other websites for movies but the problem is same.

Abba Jee

December 7, 2012

I use http://www.1channel.ch to download movies, never had such problem there, did you changed IDM download settings, or even changed its settings, did you patched/cracked IDM ?

Night Watcher

December 7, 2012

yes i have always that patched/cracked IDM ? but before that i have never seen a problem like this

Abba Jee

December 8, 2012

I see, and you are sure you didn’t let IDM update accidentally ?

Night Watcher

December 7, 2012

I didn’t change its settings

SaM Uchiha

December 19, 2012

no i made sure about updating thing. But no its not something like that … oh and there’s something i am using ” HotSpot Shield ” So what do you think about it ?

SaM Uchiha

December 19, 2012

I have tried without using Hot Spot Shield but the problem is same as ever.

Abba Jee

Rajaa Chowdhury

December 6, 2012

I faced a lot of problem with IDM and therefore shidted to Free Download Manager and till now have not faced any major issue. If you want, you can give it a shot from http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

SaM

December 6, 2012

Thank you Very Much for that
i already have this one and i am trying to get use to it but to be honest IDM is IDM.

ha14

December 6, 2012

try to hide IP and redownload to see if it works?

Anonymous

December 6, 2012

Thank you for telling me that but how am i going to do that will you please explain ?

ha14

FIDELIS

Hello, you also have the option of using an extension such as flashget. You can download videos in flash and mp4. Of course it does not work with every site.

Anonymous

December 6, 2012

Thank you very much for that .. i use just http://www.1channel.ch for downloading movies but they are all downloadable movie links.

Douglas Mutay

December 6, 2012

From which website are you trying to download these video? Maybe it’s your connexion and the server on these website doesn’t support download resume option.

Nicola De Ieso

December 6, 2012

Try to use JDownloader that doesn’t have problems

Bobbi Bach-Oachs

December 6, 2012

Ok well I downloaded foxfire just for downloading flash files. The apps are Ant Video Downloader, Net Video Downloader, and Flash and Video Downloader. As far as google chrome you could try bitcomet, because I have gotten that to work before.

Qin Tang

December 7, 2012

On which website you were trying to download the videos?

Alan Wade

December 7, 2012

Uninstall IDM then download and install Windows Install ,CleanUp Tool.
Run it and look for IDM.
If you see it, put a check mark in the box and click OK.
Now run a reg cleaner like CCleaner and run it.
If possible, downlöoad and install the previous version of IDM and see if that works.

Night Watcher

December 7, 2012

Well okay then I’ll try that one … guess i have no choice but to listen to all of you guys

SaM Uchiha

December 8, 2012

okay Sir
well i did whatever you said first i uninstalled IDM completely and then Delete my windows and re install it and then used Ccleaner there’s no IDM stuff there and i installed IDM 6.12.24 but the problem is same as before

dhanunjayarao chunduri

December 7, 2012

is your idm is fully activated or using a trail version you can use freemake video downloader for downloading videos only.

SaM Uchiha

December 8, 2012

yes its fully activated

Anonymous

December 7, 2012

I have downloaded a 3 GB+ file. So, I don’t think there’s a problem with the size of the file. I regularly download Youtube videos etc which are rather big too. Most probably, there could be a limit to what the website puts there. Else, is your internet connection stable? try DAP. I found it an excellent download manager software.

Din One

December 8, 2012

try free downloader like orbit, im using it for year and no problem…

Bahram

December 11, 2012

I have the same problem somehow! Recently when I open a page that there’s an embedded video in it (like youtube, dailymotion ,..) the IDM toolbar “Download this video” will be shown and after clicking on it, IDM makes a mistake and shows the download window with the incorrect file size! for example when I wanna try downloading a large and HQ video file in Youtube, IDM starts downloading and shows the 516KB or 1.65MB for the file size! when the downloading of this video (1.65MB!!) completed, I try to open the file but the file won’t open because it is broken or something like that. I searched the net and found out there are people which have this problem, and all of the use IDM but nobody can solve the problem yet!
I was wondering if somebody could help me solve this problem.
IDM ver 6.12 build 26
Browser: Google Chrome ver. 23; Mozilla FirerFox 16
O.S: Windows 8 Enterprise x64
(note: I’ve had this problem with both IDM 6.07 and 6.12 in both Windows 7 ultimate and Windows 8 Enterprise)

Anonymous

December 20, 2012

I always use the free FlashVideoDownloader firefox plug-in. Much more simple. Here’s the link: